sudoers file problem.

[GhostofSin]

Hello , i'll really appreciate help with this issue i have. I want to "poweroff" as normal user , then i modified the suders file with visudo like this :

# Cmnd alias specification
Cmnd_Alias TURNOFF= /sbin/poweroff,/sbin/shutdown

# User privilege specification
root           ALL=(ALL) ALL
normal_user    ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: TURNOFF

But then as normal user when i try to run "poweroff" with :

$ sudo poweroff

It asks me fora Password it supposed that it won't ask me for a password with the NOPASSWD line isn't it ? Thank you

[valan]

Perhaps replacing normal_user with ALL will solve the problem. I don't see normal_user in the man page anywhere, I'm guessing (unless you have it defined as an alias) that sudo would let a user with the user name of normal_user run the command fine.

[GhostofSin]

Some mate suggested add the full path of poweroff like this :

 $ sudo /sbin/poweroff

and it worked . I came from Debian and i forget sometimes that things are done more "linux style" here in Slack. Thanks !